Wednesday 05 July 2006 19:58, Bill Ricker wrote:

* How many free GB should I expect to need on my filesystem(s) to copy
and build?

My source tree is 70 Mb with Svk, so 150 - 250 Mb should suffice.

* Is there a minimum version of SVN required to access this repository?

At least 1.0, I expect.

* Is a FQDN with RDNS required for access or posting of bugs?

I believe you can post through the web interface.

* Minimum GCC == whatever Perl5 was built with? or specific?

Probably at least 2.9x.

* Is parrot/cage/todo.pod in the source tree or elsewhere?

It's in the tree.

* Is building on Debian 3.0 ("Woody") of any use or practicality?

Sure, why not? Alternate arches would be good too.

(Alas, I do _not_ have the Tru64/DEC compiler for Alpha AXP on my
Debian/Alpha. There's someone I can talk to, I might be able to get
it, or get access to it. Hmm.)

Alpha would be very good.
-- c

Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:10:47PM -0700, chromatic wrote:
Wednesday 05 July 2006 19:58, Bill Ricker wrote:

* Minimum GCC == whatever Perl5 was built with? or specific?

Probably at least 2.9x.

Why? IIRC gcc 2.7 was good and stable, and it's not like C89 has changed much
in the past 10 years. I guess it's really down to whether the C compiler
(gcc or otherwise) has awkward bugs on your platform.

(Alas, I do _not_ have the Tru64/DEC compiler for Alpha AXP on my
Debian/Alpha. There's someone I can talk to, I might be able to get
it, or get access to it. Hmm.)

Alpha would be very good.

Any vendor compiler is very good at picking up sloppy C code. As well as
Tru64, anyone with Irix, AIX, HP-UX, particularly if 64 bit, would be most
welcome.

Anyone got a Cray? sizeof(short) being 8 is always fun for surprising
unwary source code. And something (Amdahl mainframes?) aren't 2's complement.

Nicholas Clark

Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:33:48AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:10:47PM -0700, chromatic wrote:
Wednesday 05 July 2006 19:58, Bill Ricker wrote:

* Minimum GCC == whatever Perl5 was built with? or specific?

Probably at least 2.9x.

Why? IIRC gcc 2.7 was good and stable, and it's not like C89 has changed much
in the past 10 years. I guess it's really down to whether the C compiler
(gcc or otherwise) has awkward bugs on your platform.

(Alas, I do _not_ have the Tru64/DEC compiler for Alpha AXP on my
Debian/Alpha. There's someone I can talk to, I might be able to get
it, or get access to it. Hmm.)

Alpha would be very good.

Any vendor compiler is very good at picking up sloppy C code. As well as
Tru64, anyone with Irix, AIX, HP-UX, particularly if 64 bit, would be most
welcome.

The MS Visual Studio compilers are also very picky, and that's where I
made some initial contributions.

Alternative compilers on various S's are also a good place to look for
problems. Intel C++ is on Linux, Windows, and Mac S X (Intel). The
alpha Sun Studio compiler is available for Linux.

Steve Peters
steve (AT) fisharerojo (DOT) org